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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Tong Li <tong.n.li@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Extend Linux to support proportional-share scheduling
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:24:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070421042433.GE2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704201111200.18780@tongli.jf.intel.com>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:30:04AM -0700, Tong Li wrote:
> This patch extends the existing Linux scheduler with support for
> proportional-share scheduling (as a new KConfig option).
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~tongli/linux/linux-2.6.19.2-trio.patch
> It uses a scheduling algorithm, called Distributed Weighted Round-Robin 
> (DWRR), which retains the existing scheduler design as much as possible, 
> and extends it to achieve proportional fairness with O(1) time complexity 
> and a constant error bound, compared to the ideal fair scheduling 
> algorithm. The code is by no means final and has been only tested on a 
> four-processor dual-core x86-64 system. Rather than focusing on coding 
> issues, the intent of this RFC is to invite discussions on the proposed 
> DWRR algorithm and proportional-share scheduling in general.

Very nice. I think we need this kind of functionality in mainline.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-21  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-20 18:30 [RFC] Extend Linux to support proportional-share scheduling Tong Li
2007-04-21  4:24 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-06  1:56 Li, Tong N
2007-06-06  3:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-06  4:31   ` Li, Tong N
2007-06-06  5:30     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-06 13:26       ` Bill Davidsen

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